Department of psychology

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Katherine Rawson, Ph.D.

Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado (2004)

Research Interests

My research investigates text comprehension and metacognition. Current interests include exploring how text comprehension processes become automatic, how the various component processes involved in text comprehension interact with one another, how to optimize text learning in educationally relevant domains, and how self-regulatory processes can support such learning. Dr. Rawson's vita.

Lab Site: Comprehension & Memory Lab

Courses Frequently Taught

• General Psychology
• Psychology of Language
  

Recent Publications

Rawson, K. A., & Touron, D. R. (2009). Age differences and similarities in the shift from computation to retrieval during reading comprehension. Psychology and Aging, 24,423-437.

Rawson, K. A., & Middleton, E. L. (2009). Memory-based processing as a mechanism of automaticity in text comprehension.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 353-369.

Pyc, M. A., & Rawson, K. A. (2009). Testing the Retrieval Effort Hypothesis: Does greater difficulty correctly recalling information lead to higher levels of memory?  Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 437-447.

Rawson, K. A., & Van Overschelde, J. P. (2008). How does knowledge promote memory? The distinctiveness theory of skilled memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 646-668.

Pyc, M. A., & Rawson, K. A. (2007). Examining the efficiency of schedules of distributed retrieval practice.Memory & Cognition, 35, 1917-1927.                      

Rawson, K. A. (2007). Testing the Shared Resource Assumption in theories of text processing. Cognitive Psychology, 54, 155-183.     

Rawson, K. A., & Dunlosky, J. (2007). Improving self-evaluation of learning for key concepts in expository texts. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19, 559-579.